[DMANET] Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Programming Stream, EURO-INFORMS 2013

Mixed-Integer Non-Linear Programming Stream, EURO-INFORMS 2013

We are organizing the Mixed-Integer Non-linear Programming (MINLP) Stream
at the EURO-INFORMS 2013 conference, July 1-4, 2013, Rome (Italy). If you
are interested in organizing a MINLP session or to give a talk within a
MINLP session, please feel free to contact us.
Abstracts are due by March 1, 2013.

Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming is a sub-field of Mathematical
Programming specializing in modelling and solving one of the most general
(and hard) classes of optimization problems: namely, problems including
both nonlinear terms and integer variables. There are
countless real-world applications: in energy production, chemical
engineering, scheduling, software verification, quantum chemistry, air
traffic management, bioinformatics, nuclear engineering, and water
distribution, for example.
Small and medium scale MINLPs are currently solved using a
Branch-and-Bound variant called "spatial Branch-and-Bound" (sBB), where
branching is allowed on continuous as well as discrete variables that
contribute to the gap between the original problem and its convex
relaxation. For large-scale variants one must currently resort to
heuristics, such as VNS, Feasibility Pump, Local Branching; or exploit
the problem structure to derive special-purpose methods. Alternative
approaches are studied for special cases of MINLP problems, like, for
example, convex MINLP and MIQP problems.

Sessions and talks focusing on both methodological developments and
applications are welcome.
If you would like to submit a talk, please use the session code 7648b5de.
If you would like to contribute with the organization of session of 4
talks, please contact one of the stream organizers.

More information about the EURO-INFORMS 2013 Conference can be found here:
http://euro2013.org/

MINLP stream contacts:
Sonia Cafieri (sonia@recherche.enac.fr)
Claudia D'Ambrosio (dambrosio@lix.polytechnique.fr)
Armin Fuegenschuh (fuegenschuh@zib.de)





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